Hey Steve. I’m guessing the “Surf” theme is a placeholder? It doesn’t seem to do anything.
this post was submitted on 18 Jul 2023
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I'm having problems with the communities tab in the most recent release. Entries are sometimes getting duplicated or showing out of order, and I'm experiencing stuttering and slow loading. The app is slow to respond if I try to navigate away from the communities tab- sometimes taking several clicks or seconds to respond- while responsiveness in other tabs is normal. The battery usage has also been noticeably higher than before. I'm on an iPhone 11 pro, 16.5.1.
- The duplication seemed to continue the longer I stayed in the tab and would cause jumping to other areas without any input on my part.
- Duplicate entries are clickable links that lead to the correct communities.
- The issue seems worse the more communities I'm subscribed to. I'll attach screenshots from the account with the most subscriptions, but other accounts show only one or two duplicates and my account with the fewest subscriptions didn't have any issues. I unsubscribed from a few on this account and am no longer seeing duplicate entries but am still experiencing the slow loading/high battery usage.
- Unrelated but certain subscriptions are missing from the tab, notably !kbinMeta@kbin.social. This community shows up under my communities in other apps I'm testing, but not in Bean; maybe because the display name starts with a / and the other apps are sorting by the actual link?
That’s really weird!! I’ve not experienced this myself. I know it’s a pain but would you mind deleting the app and reinstalling?
Sure, I tried deleting and reinstalling and was not able to reproduce the duplication issue, though the slow loading/page jumping around/lack of responsiveness is still present.
Out of curiosity I tried subscribing to a new community and the bug reappeared, though not as bad this time:
I tried reinstalling again and the bug still persisted. I then unsubscribed from a community bringing my subscription count to 200 and that seems to have resolved the duplicate entries for now.
I’ll subscribe to a tonne of communities on my test account and see if I can replicate this.
Fwiw I tried this experiment again on my lemm.ee account to make sure it wasn’t instance-specific:
- 200 communities: no issues
- 201 communities: a couple duplicates
- 205 communities: more duplicates
- 210 communities: duplicates and communities out of order
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I have the theme set to “automatic” but the app doesn’t switch from light mode or to dark mode unless it’s forced closed and re-opened. Most other apps seem to switch as soon as you open them, even if they haven’t been force closed and closed by iOS.
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Will you consider building Lemmy search into the app? https://www.search-lemmy.com/ I feel like this could be a really useful tool
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A third option for “view” in the main page would be great. Right now we either have the full view with a larger photo and article preview, or a really condensed one with the thumbnail on the left and a headline.
Not sure what it would look like, but maybe something in between the 2?
Also, a full BLACK/Dark mode would be great. Right now, some of the app still has a grayer UI in some spots.
lovley app but the keyboard wont appear when i reply ( iphone 11 ios 17)
Can you try the latest build and let me know if it still persists?
Hi, I found another bug: my replies in comments are not being shown under the right parent.
Here’s how it’s shown on Liftoff (and on the web page):
https://i.ibb.co/TPKZHhJ/IMG-0208.png
And here’s what’s on Bean:
https://i.ibb.co/kBtd3Gx/IMG-0209.png
Thanks again for your app
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I love the look of this app! I’ve been trying all of them, and have so far kept going back to Memmy. But this one has the potential to take over! I will be watching with great interest!
Changelog: July 31st
Build 2023.07.31.17.18
- Fixed a bug that caused the app to crash if metadata could not be fetched.
- GIFs are no longer animated in the list view and only within the ImageViewer. This was causing a massive memory issue that crashed not only Bean but also Springboard.
- Added a new theme: Twinkle.
- Added context menus to posts — press and hold.
Since I didn’t get the previous build via TestFlight, I’ve got a request on one of the changes from that one: Can we get some haptic feedback for the press and hold pop up account changer? For some reason, it feels like it should be there to me.
Yeah, I’ll look at adding that.
I’m going to be improving this in the coming days as it looks like the conversion from UIImage -> SDAnimatedImage is blocking the UI thread currently.
I’ll push that to a separate queue, show a loading indicator on the ImageViewer and add a badge to show that it’s a GIF.
But… at least I’m not crashing Springboard any more 🙈
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This username appears weird
It should be like this (screen shotted from Memmy)
The sounds used for up/downvotes aren’t all that pleasant, if I’m being honest. Maybe it’s the volume, maybe it’s something else.
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And, not to bombard you, but there seems to be an issue with replies showing up. I know there are a few replies to my comment shown in the image, but they’re not appearing in Bean. It seems to be a problem in posts with a lot of comments, at least as far as I can tell.
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